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I was the original developer of the community version of the website <strong>Historici.nl</strong>, a website for professional historians working on Dutch history, which was officially launched in January 2014 by the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands. Please note that the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160526193145/https://www.historici.nl/">original Drupal version</a> I developed no longer exists and has been replaced by a <a href="https://www.historici.nl">Wordpress version</a> in 2017.</p>
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</div></div></div>Fri, 10 Jan 2014 16:03:25 +0000gerben zaagsma76 at http://gerbenzaagsma.orgEuropean History Primary Sourceshttp://gerbenzaagsma.org/projects/european-history-primary-sources
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>European History Primary Sources (EHPS) is an index of websites that offer access to digitised primary sources and born-digital sources on the history of Europe. I built EHPS in 2008 and was involved as technical maintainer until mid-2014.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:34:00 +0000gerben zaagsma75 at http://gerbenzaagsma.orgYiddish Sourceshttp://gerbenzaagsma.org/projects/yiddish-sources
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><a href="http://yiddish-sources.com" target="_blank">Yiddish Sources</a> is a portal for anyone who is interested in Yiddish and Yiddish Studies. I first launched it in 2005 as <a class="ext" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080508021547re_/www.eui.eu/Personal/Researchers/Zaagsma/Yiddish/" target="_blank">Yiddish Sources in Historical Research</a>. It is part of the <a class="ext" href="http://vlib.iue.it/history/index.html" target="_blank">WWW-VL History Central Catalogue</a> that is hosted at the <a class="ext" href="http://www.eui.eu/Home.aspx" target="_blank">European University Institute</a>. Yiddish Sources was made with the open source content management system <a class="ext" href="http://drupal.org/" target="_blank">Drupal</a>. </p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:22:06 +0000gerben zaagsma74 at http://gerbenzaagsma.orgTransitions: on using Drupal in the humanitieshttp://gerbenzaagsma.org/blog/20-08-2012/transitions-using-drupal-humanities
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><span>In this post I want to discuss the use of Drupal and Drupal distributions in academia, especially the humanities, where </span><span>Drupal has become an increasingly popular CMS in recent years.</span></p>
<p><span>This has not always been the case. Traditionally, Wordpress has been a popular choice among humanists, especially for personal websites/blogs, and in humanities institutes in general, particularly for conference and project websites (see also my post on building a blog with Drupal <a href="http://thesurfaceappearanceofthings.com/blog/27-06-2012/building-blog-drupal">here</a>). </span><span>Given its relatively easy learning curve, out-of-the-box functionality and general ease of use this is an understandable choice, if also a self-perpetuating one:</span><span> g</span><span>iven the scarce availability of resources in many humanities institutes, previous experience with a particular system is often a key criterion, even </span><span>when other systems might suit a project's functional demands better. </span></p></div></div></div>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:11:58 +0000gerben zaagsma69 at http://gerbenzaagsma.orgBuilding a blog with Drupalhttp://gerbenzaagsma.org/blog/27-06-2012/building-blog-drupal
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>When I decided to create this website the first question that came up was: which CMS will I use? I built a previous version with Wordpress which is pretty much ideal for a blog-oriented website. But as it happens I built several websites with Drupal already and I currently work as a web developer using Drupal Commons to create a major new website relating to Dutch history.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 07:33:51 +0000gerben zaagsma65 at http://gerbenzaagsma.orgYiddish heritage onlinehttp://gerbenzaagsma.org/blog/23-06-2012/yiddish-heritage-online
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Since 2005 I maintain a website called Yiddish Sources which is a portal for anyone who is interested in Yiddish and Yiddish Studies. One of the side effects of maintaining this website is that it gives an insight into how the web is used, or can be used, to promote and share historical and cultural heritage online.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 23 Jun 2012 09:19:49 +0000gerben zaagsma63 at http://gerbenzaagsma.orgBuilding an Online Community for Historians in The Netherlandshttp://gerbenzaagsma.org/blog/17-05-2012/building-online-community-historians-netherlands
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>At the recent <a href="http://ncph.org/cms/" target="_blank">National Council on Public History</a> annual meeting in Milwaukee I participated in a working group called <a href="http://www.pastvoices.net/historyonline/" target="_blank">Public History Online: Using the Web to Collaborate and Share</a>. The goal of the working group was to "discuss how we can build more democratic and sustainable cultural institutions using digital technology and the web". Visit the <a href="http://www.pastvoices.net/historyonline/" target="_blank">blog</a> to read the reflections of all participants. Below is the piece that I wrote on my project (with a big thanks to my colleagues at the <a href="http://www.huygens.knaw.nl/" target="_blank">Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands</a> who commented on various drafts). </p>
<p>By the way, be sure to check the new <a href="http://www.publichistoryint.org/wordpress/" target="_blank">International Federation for Public History</a>. </p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Building an Online Community for Historians in The Netherlands</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Introduction</strong></p></div></div></div>Thu, 17 May 2012 17:11:17 +0000gerben zaagsma58 at http://gerbenzaagsma.orgNew version of European History Primary Sourceshttp://gerbenzaagsma.org/blog/16-05-2012/new-version-european-history-primary-sources
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Recently, the new version of European History Primary Sources (EHPS) was launched. EHPS is an index of scholarly digital repositories that contain primary sources for the history of Europe. Hundreds of digital libraries, archives and born-digital sources are described and tagged by country, language, period, subject and type of source. </p>
<p>For more information visit EHPS <a href="http://primary-sources.eui.eu/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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</div></div></div>Wed, 16 May 2012 19:32:18 +0000gerben zaagsma60 at http://gerbenzaagsma.org